Days Will Run Away

By: Tracy Cook

Disclaimer: I own nothing. These characters belong to the creators of Vampire Diaries.

Couple: Bonnie/Damon

Rating: M

Warning : This fic will have lots of murder and violence and smut!

Author's Note : This fic will not have vampires in it! It will be completely AU and based off of the plot of the video game Fallout 4! I will definitely change around a lot of things, dialogue, some setting stuff, romantic stuff, etc. I liked the concept of the game and I really just want to turn it into a fic! This will feature other characters, but the main pairing will be Bamon.

Chapter One

Everyone's Underground

'The days will run away

Before you know it.'

'Frostbitten fingertips curled and twitched against the small glass window. A thin layer of ice spread clear across every inch of caramel skin. Slowly melting. With each second that passed, she could feel the air rushing back into her lungs. Could feel her muscles spasm and twitch. Eyes frozen over, crystals clinging to long eyelashes as they slowly parted.

Vision distorted.

She forced a few difficult blinks before gazing across the room in horror. Sheila Bennett, her beautiful baby girl was curled up in her own containment vessel. The ten year old was blinking wildly and gasping for breath as she reached for the window, trying to escape.

Poor girl was scared to death.

'What-what's going on?' Bonnie thought to herself, trying to recall how they had gotten into this situation. Her memory foggy and fragmented.

The last thing she could remember was that day.'

All the pieces of the puzzle seemed to be coming together finally. After years of serving in the military and fighting for their Country, both of them had been relieved of their duty and free to finally live the war-free life they'd always wanted.

Ten years.

That was how much time she'd missed from her own daughter's life.

It wasn't that she or her husband had a choice in the matter. They'd been fighting the war so that Sheila could have a peaceful upbringing. So that she could grow up into a world where she wouldn't have to fear for her life every second of every day.

Every person in the United States had been required to serve a minimum of ten years in the military after the age of eighteen.

Fortunately, that law had been dropped after the war concluded.

Sheila Bennett would never have to learn how to wield a gun.

"This is so nice." Bonnie hummed against his chest, fingers curling deep in the thin fabric of his shirt and tugging him even closer. Now that she had him consistently in her life, she never wanted to let him go. "Just the three of us."

"Don't leave out Stefan, love. It might hurt his feelings." Kol teased, gently stroking his fingers down the woman's spine. Feeling her arching desperately into his touch.

She laughed at how insane that sounded. "You know he can't feel."

"Seems to have Sheila fooled." The British man nodded in the direction of their daughter and the robot playing with her.

Bonnie rolled slightly and glanced over her shoulder at their baby girl and Stefan. The two were playing a game of checkers and the ten year old had a smile on her face that could light up the world. Through her naive eyes she saw the man as nothing more than that. A man.

During the war mothers had complained about needing to stay home and take care of their children. They couldn't just leave them to fend for themselves, right?

So, the government had come up with a solution.

An invention they called Hybrids.

Commercials promoted them as "not man" and "not machine." A combination of the two. Something programmed to show compassion and take care of your children while you were away. Designed to look identical to humans. To this day it baffled Bonnie that hiding beneath such realistic looking skin were circuits and wires.

Stefan had eyes of a human. His voice was not electronic. He seemed to have feelings.

"Oh, would you look at that. You beat me again mistress Sheila."

"You'd think you'd be able to beat a ten year old girl, uncle Stefan." The child stated pointedly, with a mocking lilt in her tone.

"Maybe if that ten year old wasn't a little genius."

Sheila laughed and her smile stretched from one ear to the other as her uncle complimented her. She pushed herself to her feet and moved toward Stefan, wrapping her arms tight around his shoulders and knocking their heads together. "Or maybe you just suck at this game."

"Maybe." He smiled and knocked their heads again.

Even what he'd just done for her daughter. There was something so incomprehensibly human about it. The way he let the young girl win just to spare her feelings. His smile and the kind sparkle in his eyes. It constantly made Bonnie doubt what she knew about artificial intelligence.

"Bon." Kol nudged her side to get her attention, drawing it back to the television. They'd been watching one of the new episodes of 'I Love Lucy,' only now the screen had gone black and there was a warning scrolling across the top.

A loud buzzing noise emitting from the speakers.

She recognized the sound and it caused her heart to drop into her stomach. Skin burning hot and breathing becoming hard. As if there were something crushing her chest. They'd only been out of the war for half a year. Half a year of peace and quiet and normalcy and already the war was starting up again.

"We interrupt your scheduled programming to alert you of suspicious behavior."

Bonnie pushed away from her husband and started to stand to her feet. Madly dragging fingers through dark hair and looking around the room. Stefan looked confused and Sheila frightened as she clung to him. In a way it hurt. Having her own daughter cling to a robot instead of running to her, but she knew her baby looked to him as a parent. He'd raised her.

"We have reason to believe that our town might be in line of nuclear threat. All people are advised to move to the vault until further notice."

The Vault. AKA a city underground with all your earthly commodities. Or so they claimed. None of the civilians had actually been inside as of yet. It was invented as a backup plan in case the war broke out again.

"Stefan, gather our things."

Years of preparing for this meant the Mikaelson family had a plan. Stefan was to gather all of the necessities they needed for the vault and they were to head there as fast as physically possible. Bonnie moved to gather her daughter protectively into her arms before looking to Kol to lead the way.

He did just that. Starting out the front door and climbing in to start the car while his wife buckled Sheila into the car-seat.

Stefan rushed out of the house with their things in his hands, packing them into the trunk, strands of hair twisting in the wind. He looked too real to simply leave behind. Bonnie was attached, they all were, he was coming with them.

'And the days will run away before you know it

The lights will dim, the earth shakes, and the whole thing disappears'

"I said, no Hybrids allowed in the vault!" The man guarding entrance into the underground facility insisted, pushing Stefan back and allowing another family to go through.

"We aren't just leaving him out here to die!" Bonnie insisted stubbornly, glancing over at the humanistic machine carrying their things in his arms. He had a look of desperation on his face. Eyes pleading with her not to be left behind.

Robot or not, he had feelings. She couldn't just let him be killed.

"He's not a man! He can't die!" The guard reminded. "You and your family on the other hand can. Are you really gonna risk your daughter's life for this thing?"

"Don't call him that!"

"It's what he is."

Before Bonnie had a chance to further protest, Stefan was setting down the things on the ground and taking a step back. The last thing he wanted was to be the reason his family didn't get into the vault. Despite popular belief, he did have feelings. Whether those were manufactured or real was up to interpretation, but they existed.

"Just leave me behind master Kol and mistress Bonnie."

"Stefan." Bonnie muttered the word solemnly. She knew that if it came down to it she would have no choice but to put her baby girl first, but she couldn't fathom the thought of leaving him behind. After all he'd done for her and her family. How could she abandon him?

Even if he didn't feel physical pain, he would be destroyed.

"I was built to protect you and your family and that is what I want to do." Stefan said with a sad smile gracing his lips as he took a step toward the woman cradling Sheila in her arms. The poor girl looked devastated as she reached for her uncle.

"You can't stay out here, uncle Stefan! It's not safe!" She cried.

"Mistress Sheila." He spoke calmly and lovingly, reaching out to delicately trace his fingertips along her cheek. "I will miss you most of all. But, I'll be okay out here."

"You and your family needs to move it along or move out of line! This is an emergency!" The guard shouted. His tone wasn't so much an angry one as it was frightened. Considering the situation Bonnie couldn't even blame him.

Heart hammering painfully against her rib-cage, she gave one final sorrowful look to Stefan before whispering the word, "Sorry."

"Don't be." He said with a genuine smile. "I'll miss you guys."

"Get in or get out!"

Bonnie apologized one final time before she was rushing through the gates toward the vault with Sheila clinging tight to her. Even if deep down she knew that the man she'd left behind was only a machine, she couldn't shake the guilty feeling hanging over her conscience.

She couldn't think about that at the moment though. She had to keep going. For her husband and for her daughter.

"Stand on the lift!"

Bonnie and Kol did as instructed, standing on the circular lift with the other families. In a matter of seconds they would be carried down into the vault and who knew if they'd ever return to the surface? Some part of her hoped they would, but another knew even if they did the world would never be the same as it was now.

Nuclear bombs would destroy everything that was left. Everyone they once knew and the town they loved. Stefan. Everything would be gone.

Some of the civilians were complaining. Telling them to hurry up. Scared to death that they weren't going to make it in time. Others were sending up prayers to the Lord. Bonnie was sending up prayers to her Grams. Asking her to protect them and Stefan somehow.

She nearly lost her footing when the platform started to rumble beneath their feet and lower into the ground. Inch by inch. It was moving at a taunting speed, especially when they could see the mushroom cloud forming in the distance.

A bomb had been dropped and the aftermath was headed right for them.

Wind tussling hair and threatening to knock them over. Shrapnel plummeting toward them. Branches off trees, car doors, and then that wall of energy was just about to hit them. Everyone who hadn't made it onto the lift this turn would undoubtedly disintegrate.

'Saw the whole scene slowly dissolve

Nobody wins'

"We must ask that you and your family step into these separate pods." When Bonnie and Kol looked hesitant the assistant further explained, "It's procedure upon entering the vault. This should decontaminate you and rinse you of any radiation you might have encountered on the surface. I promise you it is entirely safe and only takes a few seconds."

'They said it was only gonna take a few seconds.' The thought floated around absently inside of her frozen skull as green eyes were fixed on her daughter in the pod across from her. Ice thawing on her small fragile body. Water dripping from the tip of her nose.

She looked like a little ice princess.

A group of men abruptly came into Bonnie's view. All armed with guns, looking prepared to kill whoever got in their way. Men on a mission and she wondered what that mission could be?

They answered her question when they opened Sheila's pod and withdrew the shivering young girl. One man slung her broken body over his shoulder and turned to the others to say, "Check the backup!"

Bonnie tried to wiggle out of her confines.

Tried to pound her fists against the door of the pod and break free as they carried her baby off to God knows where. Screaming at the top of her lungs until she could taste blood in her raw throat. Tears rolling down frozen cheeks and sticking to skin. She just needed to get out of there. She needed to save Sheila.

Another man looked through the window directly into her terrified eyes.

"The backup looks safe, sir!"

'Nobody wins.'

Author's Note :

This first chapter is a little short, mostly I wanna see if anyone is interested in this idea! Hopefully y'all like it and please leave reviews and input to help push me along! It's been a while since I've had inspiration, so I really hope it's good! Thank you so much for reading! Should I continue? What do y'all think is gonna happen next? ALSO Damon will be in the next chapter!

I love y'all!

-Tracy Cook-